Documents / FOIA release
This Central Intelligence Agency file is a compilation of Top Secret Director's Log entries from September and December 1951. The entries are daily reports from CIA offices such as OSO, OPC and OO on covert operations and intelligence matters. They cover leaflet drops over mainland China, agent teams sent into Albania and Bulgaria, plans for defector detention centers in Panama, liaison with British, French and Spanish services, and the opening of the Trotsky papers at Harvard. None of the entries mentions UFOs.
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TOP SECRET DIRECTOR'S LOG 8:30 AM, - 8:30 AM,\TE OF .DATE )CUMENT RECEIVED FROM TO SUBJECT . ACTION OP- (Contid) . Posters in Dresden, Halle, Cottbus, Erfurt and Rostock, which ordinarily are pulled down within a few hours, remained up for twelve to forty-eight hours. Authorities in each of. the localities requested the return of their'security police. from Berlin, but the Berlin SED chief reportedly threatened to resign his responsibilities .for counter-intelligence and counter-propaganda if his security forces were. depleted. With this threat he retained his control over the provincial police. None of the two hundred forty-eight men who took part in the operations was caught. An organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) representative has stated to a CIA cutout, without-revealing his source, that he has had recent news from the Ukraine telling of determined efforts by Soviet security forces to stamp out resistance. Between January and September, according to the report, fifty OUN members were arrested. .Underground members were instructed to discontinue contact with each other. The "homeland" force wanted to send out couriers but did not believe - that they would have much chance of getting through. The NEW YORK TIMES published on its amusement page on 25 September an announcement from the office of Louis de Rochemont that the producer had acquired an original story dealing with the current oil crisis in Iran, written by two young Iranian journalists. As peeviously reported, the announcement, beamed to the UK and Iran by the VOA on 26 September, is designed to cover the substantial expenditures being made by the journalists, who are CIA's two principal agents in Iran. (CONTINULD) COPY # I OF 5. SEP 2 6 1951 TOP SECRET=
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FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. 239 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.